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| Nov 3, 2026 | North Vector Dynamics Raises $20 Million+ Series A At $90 Million+ Valuation For Air And Missile Defense Technology | North Vector Dynamics has raised more than $20 million in a Series A financing, equivalent to approximately C$29 million, valuing the Canadian defence technology company at more than $90 million.
The Calgary, Alberta-based company plans to ... |
| Sep 13, 2026 | Phil Weiser’s role starting a CU tech hub offers a window into the gubernatorial candidate’s approach | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Nearly 20 years before Phil Weiser first burst onto the political scene in Colorado, he was a fresh hire at the University of Colorado Law School. And the young professor was already armed with a b... |
| Jun 10, 2026 | Стартап Orbital привлек $5 млн на орбитальные дата-центры для ИИ | Стартап Orbital, вышедший в мае из акселератора a16z Speedrun, привлек $5 млн посевных инвестиций на разработку космических дата-центров для ИИ-вычислений. Компанию основал Юин Пун — предприниматель, который в 2017 году запустил сервис элек... |
| Dec 10, 2025 | Autolane: $7.4 Million Raised To Expand Autonomous Vehicle Infrastructure Across Simon Centers | Autolane has secured $7.4 million in new funding co-led by Draper Associates and Hyperplane, marking a significant step in the company’s push to scale its curbside operating system across major retail environments. Additional participation ... |
| Jul 18, 2024 | Vectara Revolutionizes Generative AI with Mockingbird LLM | Vectara, a leader in generative AI technology, secures $25 million in Series A funding to advance the trustworthiness of Retrieval Augmented Generation with the introduction of Mockingbird, a new large language model tailored for high-accur... |
| Jul 16, 2024 | Vectara Secures $25 Million Series A Funding to Advance the Trustworthiness of Retrieval Augmented Generation with New Mockingbird LLM | Vectara announces recent funding rounds totaling $53.5 million and introduces Mockingbird, a new large language model ideal for high-accuracy tasks in the health, legal, finance, and manufacturing industries.
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| Jun 8, 2021 | Building A Startup? Explore Nietzsche's Philosophy Suggests Brad Feld, Co-Author Of A New Book | The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors co-authored by Brad Feld and Dave Jilk.The Foundry Group |
| Jan 12, 2021 | Mentors | Look at any successful person; Angela Merkel, LeBron James, Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Bezos, and you will see someone who has benefitted tremendously from one or more mentors in their life. Nobody gets somewhere on their own. Everyone has help.
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| Nov 2, 2020 | When The Big Companies Show Up | The post was originally published on Feld Thoughts. Brad kindly agreed to republish what we think is of great value to our readers.
I find it fascinating when a large company enters a new arena.
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| Oct 9, 2020 | Brad Feld On Startup Communities, The View From 2040, And His One Piece Of Advice For You | The Startup Community Way - by Brad Feld and Ian HathawayCourtesy of Wiley |
| Sep 23, 2020 | Storage may not be exciting, but Pure Storage’s Portworx acquisition is | In today’s technology environment, storage vendors are often overlooked, taken for granted, and considered commoditized. Wall Street doesn’t show them much love, and their trading multiples are nothing to write home about. Storage is approx... |
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| Sep 14, 2020 | As Sumo Logic readies for IPO, can it threaten Splunk? | tldr: No. At least not yet ….
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| Jul 27, 2020 | Book: The Startup Playbook | The post was originally published on Feld Thoughts. Brad kindly agreed to republish what we think is of great value to our readers.
If you are working on your first startup, this is the book for you. Hopefully, the Foreword I wrote reflect... |
| Jun 25, 2020 | Valence Announces Funding Network to Connect Black Founders | Valence, a tech platform and professional network launched last year that connects Black founders, announced its inaugural funding network Thursday. The list includes investors at top firms including Sequoia Capital, Accel and Upfront Ventu... |
| Jun 21, 2020 | Why we don’t sign NDAs | The best place to document software is in the code. In the same way, the best place to enforce confidentiality when raising capital is in the term sheet. |
| May 7, 2020 | Names Matter: Exposure Alerting vs. Digital Contact Tracing | The post was originally published on the blog Feld Thoughts.
Most people, unless you work either for the government or an infectious disease “organization” (non-profit, hospital, health care system) probably had not heard the phrase “conta... |
| Apr 24, 2020 | Colorado tech and startup newsletters you should subscribe to | For the past year and a half, we've been a daily fixture in your inbox with the latest in Colorado tech and startup news. From fundings and hirings, to new products and the occasional wildlife news, we've been busy. And if you hav... |
| Apr 15, 2020 | Please Wear a DIY Cloth Mask in Public by Brad Feld | The post was originally published on the blog Feld Thoughts.
The CDC finally issued guidance to Use of Cloth Face Coverings to Help Slow the Spread of COVID-19. If you go out in public, please wear a “Cloth Face Covering.”
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| Apr 9, 2020 | The Three Crises | The post was originally published on the blog Feld Thoughts.
While everyone I know feels the weight of being in the midst of the Covid crisis, we are actually dealing with the overlap of three linked crises. Understanding this, and putting... |
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| Mar 15, 2020 | Spring Break At Home | The Gotham Gal and I have been largely self quarantining in our home for the last two weeks and are preparing to continue doing so for a while longer.
It’s a bit depressing to be honest and I’ve been looking for ways to get the proper menta... |
| Feb 17, 2020 | Brad Feld: 5 lessons for building entrepreneurial ecosystems | Facebook
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| Jan 24, 2020 | Most tech companies aren’t WeWork | Shin Kim Contributor
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Shin Kim is working on a new SaaS startup and is also chief of staff to entrepreneur Elad Gil . Previously, Shin was at Oak Hill Capital and J.P. Morgan and earned a Master’s in EECS (data science) from... |
| Oct 11, 2019 | VC Brad Feld on WeWork, SoftBank, and why venture firms may have to slow down their pacing in 2020 | Yesterday, we had a chance to talk with longtime venture investor Brad Feld of Foundry Group, whose book “Venture Deals” was recently republished for the fourth time, and for good reason. It’s a storehouse of knowledge, from how venture fun... |
| Oct 8, 2019 | Dig into the key issues in venture today with investor and Techstars co-founder Brad Feld | Few can hold a candle to Brad Feld’s list of accolades in the startup, tech and venture world. As a multi-time founder of both startups and venture firms alike, Feld is widely known for having co-founded the Techstars accelerator — now a Si... |
| Feb 3, 2019 | Understanding Your Investors | To some extent, this blog has been about demystifying venture capital and in particular me and the firm I work at, USV.
There are many reasons why I think that is a useful exercise. When I got into the VC business in the mid 80s, it was a f... |
| Sep 30, 2018 | Working Weekends | My friend Brad Feld takes a digital sabbath. No email, internet, phone for 24 hours from Friday night to Saturday night.
I’ve not been willing or able to do that but I do try to work less on the weekends.
I don’t go to the office under any ... |
| Sep 10, 2018 | Investors are waking up to the emotional struggle of startup founders | Mahendra Ramsinghani Contributor
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Mahendra Ramsinghani founded Secure Octane Investments, which includes Demisto, CyberGRX and 16 other infrastructure and cybersecurity companies. Mahendra authored "The Business of Vent... |
| Aug 14, 2018 | Investor Friendly Terms | At USV, we have always had simple and investor-friendly terms with the institutions and individuals that provide the capital we invest.
I got thinking about that this morning in reading Brad Feld’s post about recycling management fees, some... |
| Aug 3, 2018 | Foundry Group quietly announces a big fat $750 million fund | Foundry Group, the Boulder, Colo.-based venture firm co-founded 11 years ago by startup whisperer Brad Feld, has raised a $750 million seventh fund to target early-stage and growth-stage companies, as well as to invest in other venture fund... |
| May 29, 2018 | Caffeinated Capital Files To Raise $225 Million Across Two New Funds | 6 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
If you’re like many folks, you start the day with a hot cup of coffee, tea, or another stimulating beverage to get things going on the right foot. After a lovely long weekend in the U.S., it appears ... |
| May 17, 2018 | To really know the Midwest, investors need to get off the bus | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| May 17, 2018 | To really know the Midwest, investors need to get off the bus | For those of you paying attention, the weather skipped spring this year and we in the Midwest find ourselves just tipping into warm temperatures. To keep from going crazy during those cold months, I would take the kids to a nearby pet store... |
| Apr 17, 2018 | Startup studio Pioneer Square Labs raises $80M fund, aims to ‘flip VC model on its head’ in Seattle | Pioneer Square Labs Managing Directors Mike Galgon; Julie Sandler; Greg Gottesman; and Geoff Entress. (Photo via Pioneer Square Labs)
Seattle startup studio Pioneer Square Labs is launching a new $80 million venture fund, expanding beyond i... |
| Oct 5, 2017 | Brad Feld Cofounder of Techstars Talks Depression and Obsession | Brad Feld, managing director of the Foundery Group and cofounder of Techstars, has battled his own demons. In his blog post, FeldThoughts, he addresses the realism of going through the highs and lows while building businesses, and that star... |
| Sep 26, 2017 | Antidilution: The Other Way VCs Take More Of Your Startup’s Equity | 160 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Startup funding may seem like a cut-and-dry affair. Money goes into a startup in exchange for shares in the startup. Easy enough, right?
Not so much.
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| Sep 26, 2017 | Antidilution: The Other Way VCs Take More Of Your Startup’s Equity | 170 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn
Startup funding may seem like a cut-and-dry affair. Money goes into a startup in exchange for shares in the startup. Easy enough, right?
Not so much.
There are plenty of complex terms, clauses, pro... |
| Sep 26, 2017 | Antidilution: the other way VCs take more of your startup’s equity | Jason Rowley Contributor
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| Sep 25, 2017 | You Make Money With Wins, You Make Friends With Losses | Brad Feld has a great post about the emotional toll of the collapse of the internet bubble.
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When I reflect on my relationship with Seth, Jason, and Ryan much of the intense loyalty between us was forged in the perio... |
| Sep 19, 2017 | If You Want Your Business to Win in the Long-Term, Don't Take Shortcuts | September 19, 2017 6 min read
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| Sep 2, 2017 | How to negotiate a partner role at a VC firm | It’s hard enough to get a job at a venture capital or private equity firm; it’s even more difficult to join as a partner. I recently went through the process myself in joining HOF Capital, and I thought it would be helpful to share some of ... |
| Aug 23, 2017 | Three things that every startup should consider before the fundraising tide goes out | Noah Schottenstein Contributor
Noah Schottenstein is an associate at Baker Botts LLP.
The entrepreneurial ecosystem has seen an unprecedented rush of investment over the past five years. But deal activity slowed considerably in 2016 and has... |
| Aug 17, 2017 | You don’t need to be super wealthy high net individual to be an angel investor | The outlook for the South African economy may be grim. The Reserve Bank forecasts that the economy will grow at just 0.5% this year. Yet the one thing that looks hot right now is the tech startup sector.
While the number of investors taking... |
| Aug 17, 2017 | You don’t need to be super wealthy high net individual to be an angel investor | The outlook for the South African economy may be grim. The Reserve Bank forecasts that the economy will grow at just 0.5% this year. Yet the one thing that looks hot right now is the tech startup sector.
While the number of investors takin... |
| Jul 15, 2017 | The decentralization of startup building | Sam Cash Contributor
Sam Cash is a vice president at Betaworks.
Building and investing in startups is rapidly proliferating to the many, instead of remaining the preserve of the few.
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Silicon Valle... |
| May 26, 2017 | Term Sheet — Friday, May 26 | OPEN MIC
Good morning. Term Sheet will be off Monday for Memorial Day. Which means it’s the Friday before a long weekend. Which means it’s time for some feedback. Strap in!
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| May 12, 2017 | Startup Step-By-Step: Down | A year ago, after closing my first startup, I attended one of those conferences that you’re supposed to attend. There were a lot of old friends there, folks who I hadn’t seen in a while, and there was the usual collection of panels and pane... |
| Apr 20, 2017 | Social Starts Buzz Room: April 17, 2017 | A compendium of what our partners read each week, highlighting macro industry trends, our investment focus areas, and general personal and business strategies.
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| Apr 19, 2017 | Twitter’s Gnip chief Chris Moody is joining Foundry Group | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Twitter is losing another key executive as Gnip chief executive Chris Moody has announced his departure. He has joined venture capital ... |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Amazon’s Alexa wants to talk to you about her startup accelerator | Techstars today named Aviel Ginzburg managing director of the Alexa Accelerator, a startup accelerator managed by Techstars and paid for by the Alexa Fund, Amazon’s $100 million effort to support the ecosystem forming around its intelligent... |
| Mar 1, 2017 | Amazon’s Alexa wants to talk to you about her startup accelerator | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Feb 24, 2017 | The Monthly Match | Last month, when the Gotham Gal and I and our friends Brad and Amy combined to match $20k of donations to the ACLU and ended up raising $120k on a weekend that saw the ACLU raise over $25mm, we committed to do a match every month for all of... |
| Feb 17, 2017 | Brad Feld: Don’t get too excited about all those “new” acquisitions by non-tech companies | Before renowned venture capitalist Brad Feld embarked on a digital sabbath, he stopped by a San Francisco event hosted by this editor last week, where he talked with fellow investor Semil Shah about a wide range of things. The whole sit-dow... |
| Jan 30, 2017 | AVC, Gotham Gal, and Feld Thoughts Communities Rally $100,000+ For The ACLU | Reposted from Feld.com
Sunday morning Fred Wilson put up the following blog post: A $20,000 Match Offer On ACLU Donations Today. Joanne Wilson put up a similar post titled A $20,000 Match Offer On ACLU Donations Today on her blog.
It came a... |
| Jan 24, 2017 | Unicorn Delusion: The Dark Side of Seeking a Billion-Dollar Valuation | Even SpaceX’s Elon Musk is not immune. NASA via Getty Images
Nearly one in five technology startup founders say they are “certain” they’re building a billion-dollar startup despite the fact that there are only 174 privately-held billion dol... |
| Jan 4, 2017 | NYC VC 2017 | Be Happy
On a daily basis, I am inspired by blogs from the likes of Fred Wilson (AVC) and Brad Feld (Feld Thoughts) who consistently publish insightful and educational pieces for entrepreneurs, investors, and anyone who wants to better und... |
| Dec 25, 2016 | WTF is a liquidation preference? | If you work in the tech industry, you’ve undoubtedly heard the term “liquidation preference” at some point. You may have experienced a chill as the words fell upon your ears, too. There’s a non-medical reason for this: liquidation preferenc... |
| Nov 28, 2016 | How to estimate a company’s health without really trying | Jeff Epstein Contributor
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| Nov 9, 2016 | 5 rules for preparing a killer board package | Presented by Klipfolio.
You want each meeting with your board to build the confidence the board and CEO needs to grow the business. In my experience, a free-form discussion hurts more than it helps.
I meet with our board of directors at the... |
| Sep 5, 2016 | Startup Fundraising 101 revisited | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Sep 5, 2016 | Startup Fundraising 101 revisited | Time flies when you are having fun and going through the roller coaster ride of startup life. It’s been seven years since I wrote my “Startup Fundraising 101” article here at VentureBeat, and I still get emails on it, so I thought it would ... |
| Aug 29, 2016 | Recapalypse now | Craig Hanson Contributor
Craig Hanson is a general partner of NextWorld Capital.
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| Aug 5, 2016 | Seattle Week in Review: Up in the Sky, It’s Prime Air and Blue Angels | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
The U.S. Navy’s Blue Angels—and Amazon Prime Air—are rumbling the (currently) blue Seattle skies and the Thunder Boats are ready to rip around Lake Washington. It’s Seafair We... |
| Aug 1, 2016 | Glowforge raises $22M in new funding from Foundry Group and True Ventures to scale up production of 3D laser printers | Glowforge co-founders Mark Gosselin, Dan Shapiro, and Tony Wright. Photo via Glowforge.
Glowforge, the Seattle-based startup which makes 3D laser printers, today announced a $22 million investment round.
Previous investors Foundry Group and... |
| Aug 1, 2016 | Glowforge raises $22 million to popularize its 3-D laser printers, catalog of materials | Of all the ways to make a 3-dimensional object, 3D printing is still the freshest, whether what’s involved is plastic extrusion, milling away wood or metal, or the spinning of cells into functional living tissues.
Now, a company that makes ... |
| Jul 21, 2016 | You Can’t Spell Hardware without H-A-R-D | I started my tinkering with hardware first. As a kid I used to trek down to the “electronics bazaar” in New Delhi, known as Lajpat Rai Market, and go store to store to try and find the components I needed for whatever I was building. It was... |
| Jun 20, 2016 | A CEO's job: Recruit, hire and retain the best talent | Often times the wrong people are in senior positions
By definition, as a company scales rapidly, it adds people quickly. There are many things about this that are difficult, but a vexing one has to do with the leadership team.
Often times, ... |
| Jun 10, 2016 | Seattle Week in Review: AI Chickens of Silicon Valley | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
It was an historic week as Hillary Clinton secured enough delegates to be the first woman to become the presumptive nominee of a major political party for the highest office o... |
| May 26, 2016 | Mental Health and Wellness in the Startup Realm | During my relatively short six-year journey through the startup landscape- I’ve been through ugly founder breakups, I’ve lost plenty of money, way too much time, and I ended up in the hospital from exhaustion from too many 100 hour weeks.
T... |
| May 1, 2016 | Here’s why we only did three deals last year | Adam Marcus Contributor
Adam Marcus is managing partner at OpenView Venture Partners.
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| Apr 29, 2016 | Alexander Kohl – founder of Promis | website twitter facebook LinkedIn
Alexander is a seasoned startup founder with a history of successful commercialisations. He grew his first venture, SolarPay Pty Ltd, to 22 employees and a $10 million annual turnover before a successful ex... |
| Mar 23, 2016 | Founders, you were funded for a liquidity event – start looking for one | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Mar 23, 2016 | Founders, you were funded for a liquidity event – start looking for one | There are many reasons to found a startup — and many reasons to work at a startup. But there’s only one reason your company got funded: Liquidity. The good news
To most founders a startup is not a job, but a calling.
But startups require mo... |
| Feb 28, 2016 | The Retrade | Brad Feld has a post up about The Retrade. This is when you have a handshake or a signed term sheet on a deal (M&A or Financing) and the person on the other side calls you up a day or two before closing and tells you why they are going ... |
| Feb 21, 2016 | How Bitcoin Startups Can Survive the End of the Unicorn Era | John Biggs is a New York-based writer and editor. After spending years as a programmer, Biggs decided to become a full-time journalist. His work has appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Gizmodo and Men's Health.
Biggs i... |
| Nov 19, 2015 | What’s in your term sheet? | If the relationship between the startup founder and the investor is like a marriage, then the term sheet would be the prenup – a safety to shield both parties from getting scorched too badly in the event of a fallout.
Here are the basics:
T... |
| Nov 16, 2015 | How You Write Down Snapchat | Fidelity just wrote down the value of their Snapchat investment by 25%. You can read about it here.
It reminded me of when I learned the accounting rules on how these investments have to be valued. In terms of process, if you imagined a bu... |
| Nov 6, 2015 | Innovating In A World Of Patent Lawsuits | Elaine Chen Contributor
Elaine Chen is the founder and managing director of ConceptSpring, as well as a senior lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
This fall, Apple once again won the dubious honor of dominating the conversation ... |
| Oct 29, 2015 | Libro: Cómo cerrar rondas de financiación con éxito. Una guía práctica para operaciones de capital riesgo | 29/10/2015
LIBRO: CÓMO CERRAR RONDAS DE FINANCIACIÓN CON ÉXITO. UNA GUÍA PRÁCTICA PARA OPERACIONES DE CAPITAL RIESGO.
Recientemente se ha publicado el libro "Cómo cerrar rondas de financiación con éxito", escrito por los emprend... |
| Oct 28, 2015 | Pendo’s Engagement Software Clicks With VCs, Sparking $11M Round | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Pendo, a company whose software helps companies glean insights about their customers by analyzing their Web behavior, has raised $11 million in a Series A round of financing.
... |
| Oct 22, 2015 | Get Ready Seattle, Startup Week is Heading Your Way | What is it that makes an ordinary city blossom into a robust tech hub? It’s a question that pervades the minds of almost everybody involved in building a tech ecosystem in a city, all the way from the locals up to the VC investors.
There ar... |
| Sep 30, 2015 | Day Two of Denver Startup Week is in the Books | At one point today I pulled out my phone expecting to see the clock ticking around 10:00 AM, but I was floored to see it was past 12 noon. Where did the first half of the day go? Time really does fly when you're having fun, and the Den... |
| Sep 13, 2015 | Unicorpse: Why founders and investors should stop talking about unicorns | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
The current usage of the word unicorn makes me ti... |
| Sep 13, 2015 | Unicorpse: Why founders and investors should stop talking about unicorns | The current usage of the word unicorn makes me tired. I could rant about it for a while, but that would make me tired of myself ranting about it.
Instead, I’d like to focus on a word that appeared a month ago by Aileen Lee in Welcome To The... |
| Sep 12, 2015 | Are individual angel investors starting to get tapped out? | I got the following question from a friend yesterday.
“I’ve had a few conversations recently about how individual seed investors are getting kind of tapped out – for a variety of reasons, but in general it’s not that easy to find people who... |
| Sep 12, 2015 | Are individual angel investors starting to get tapped out? | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
I got the following question from a friend yester... |
| Aug 17, 2015 | Office 365 vs Google Apps: Who wins on pricing? (Part 1 of 4) | If there's one common request I get from readers via email, it's that they want an updated deep dive on my thoughts regarding the whole Office 365 vs Google Apps debate. It's a topic I've written about on numerous occasi... |
| Jul 31, 2015 | Евгения Смородникова, Founder Institute: Как эмоции основателя влияют на успех стартапа Статьи редакции | Евгения Смородникова, директор «Founder Institute Санкт-Петербург» и сооснователь бизнес-инкубатора CoffeeLab.vc, написала для ЦП колонку о том, что происходит с психикой основателей стартапов и как это влияет на успех их бизнеса.
С точки з... |
| Jul 31, 2015 | Foundry Group Closes Fifth Venture Capital Fund at $225M | Boulder, CO-based venture capital firm Foundry Group closed its fifth fund, at $225m.
Foundry Venture Capital 2016, L.P. will continue the firm’s strategy of investing in seed and early-stage opportunities in the software and IT space that ... |
| Jul 16, 2015 | Buy/Hold/Sell In Venture Capital | Jonathan Friedman Contributor
Jonathan Friedman is a partner at LionBird Israel and blogs about the Venture Capital Point of View at VCPOV.com.
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| Jul 7, 2015 | Live in my Kansas City Google Fiber house for free for a year | I’m running another competition for a startup to live for a year for free in my Kansas City FiberHouse.
When I bought my house in Kansas City in 2013, I announced my intentions clearly.
“I’m not going to be living in it. Instead, I’m going ... |
| Jun 17, 2015 | Mapbox Raises $52M to Scale Open Source Maps | Washington DC based Mapbox today announced a series B round of $52M, one of the largest for mapping and location based startups. Led by San Francisco DFJ Growth, they are joined by Pritzker Group, DBL Partners, Promus Ventures Thrive Capita... |
| Jun 7, 2015 | Convertible Notes- The Phillips Screwdriver of Startup Financing Instruments | Contrary to what you might think, convertible notes have been around for a long time in early stage tech financing. What’s different today is that Y Combinator popularized it several years ago and since then, we’ve seen seed stage funding e... |
| May 26, 2015 | Value-add VCs are not bullsh*t — here’s why | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
In a recent post published on VentureBeat, Christ... |
